Abatement of petition
103. —A European Parliamentary election petition shall be abated by the death of a sole petitioner or of the survivor of several petitioners.
(2) The abatement shall not affect the liability of the petitioner or any other person to the payment of costs previously incurred.
(3) On the abatement the prescribed notice of it shall be given in the electoral region to which the petition relates; and within the prescribed time after the notice is given, any person who might have been a petitioner in respect of the election may apply to the election court or High Court in the prescribed manner and in the prescribed time and place to be substituted as a petitioner; and the court may, if it thinks fit, substitute him accordingly.
(4) Security shall be given on behalf of a petitioner so substituted, as in the case of a new petition.